Friday while doing my exercise at Cardiac Rehab, I started feeling bad. Sort of wrung out, so I stopped. The folks there came right over and took my blood pressure, and started asking questions. I started having chest pains, so I popped a nitro. Wrong thing to do. I had been sweating bad, and was dehydrated. Blood pressure plumated, I did not pass out, but was totally incapacitated. Four guys lifted me off the New Step machine I was on, and sat me in a wheel chair. Nurse was calling for a gurney, but the guys there (fellow patients) were not waiting. One guy litiaraly ran out the door, and up the hallway, pushing that wheel chair. All the way across the Hospital, people opened doors and made way for us. Right into Emergency room and they were waiting and ready. I was sweating, and burning up, due to the low blood pressure. It took a while for them to get me stabilized.
Cardiologist followed the wheel chair to the emergency room, and was examining me as soon as I was on the bed. Later he came back and wants to go in and take pictures and examine the vessels in my heart. He agrees with me something is not right. I had stints put in last August, and have had minor chest pains eversince. Then in April I had a sever chest pain incident and went into the emergency room. Doctor did a cath and found the stints I had put in last August had collapsed. The vessels had crushed them, so they blew them back up and put new stints inside those. I was still having chest pains, so the doctor would not clear me to go back to the gym and do my Physical Thyropy routine till I completed Cardiac Rehab. Looks like that was a good thing.
I'm scheduled for the Cath Lab Monday morning at 0600. That's 6AM for you civilian types. May God give the Doc a steady hand. Never before have I been concerned, I just knew it was going to be OK. This time I am a bit worried. Rog
